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Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. ↗

— Paul Bert

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The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#contrary #exact #generally #often #truth

I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here. ↗

— Donald Berwick

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It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not. ↗

— Donald Berwick

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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#around #feeling #get #lot #many

I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

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I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there. ↗

— Joe Biden

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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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